What a wonderful way for "St" Lou Holtz to go out. This guy was one of the biggest crooks in College Football and the media fawns all over him. What is is with the state of Arkansas. A red state, but they seem to have the a larger than their fair share of a*sh*les. The Clintonista, Jerry Jones, John Henry (Red Sox owner), and Holtz.

Geez... it you get into a fight in a football game, you're an idiot. All that padding makes fighting pretty meaningless. If you take off your freakin' helmet, your best protection while in a fight in a football game, Darwinism kicks in, and you deserve what you get.

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posted on 11/20/2004 12:28:18 PM PST
by Jokelahoma
(Animal testing is a bad idea. They get all nervous and give wrong answers.)

We got one here, Paul Pasqualoni. I stood in his corner all the while knowing he was a horrible coach. Great guy, loves his kids, graduates them, turns teams with 9-2 talent into 6-5 teams.

It becomes clearer each year as more and more of his players get into the NFL as high profile players and the best he did was 9-3 in 98. That team should have been 11-0 when you look back. They had McNabb, Freeney, Kevin Johnson, Will Allen, Olindo Mare, Morlin Greenwood, Rob Konrad. The year before they had Marvin Harrison.

There is enough background on this guy about how he skirted the acadamic qualifications for entrance to Notre Dame in his quest to win. He had endless battles with the administration over this and when he lost he still did what he wanted. The Notre Dame infatuated media kept a lid on this until he was gone. In fact one of the reasons that Notre Dame has for the most part struggled since he left was because the Administration there regained control over admission. As far as being an Arkansas, he rose to fame as coach of Arkansas. I probably could have put Nolan Richardson on that list, he deserves it, but I believe he was a Texan. His fame came while at Arkansas as did Holtz.

I don't know about that. The early NBA of Sheboygan, Ft. Wayne , Rochester and Syracuse were littered with fights. The players were 90 per cent white then. We just did not have the hand-wringers around then to try to stir up a sense of outrage then.

There are a lot of stories about Holtz that the media covered-up. You won't hear them now that he is an old man. To be fair about the racist stuff, there probably was a lot of Southern coaches that came of age during that era , were of the same cloth. That was the culture. How many stayed frozen in time and how many changed is the issue.

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